If indeed you blows who you is, as Louis Armstrong once famously said, then Stephen Bruners bass is a mainline to the soul of a man whose DNA was transcribed from the stars onto staff paper. His Flying Lotus-produced debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, offers both stone-cold skill and uncanny astrality, picking up where the pair left off on 2010s Cosmogramma and further distilling the jazz current running through that landmark Lotus release.